Mid Level DevOps Engineer

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: Not Specified

About Outliant

Outliant is a fully-remote, US-based, digital product development and startup consulting company. Our team of culturally diverse creators uses their exceptional skills and talents to help conceive seamless digital products. We foster a work-play energy that supports individual growth and encourages the freedom of creativity and "thinking outside the box."

Our Core Values:

• Pursuit of Excellence: We are extremely competitive, ambitious, and driven to be exceptional – as individuals, teams, and as an organization. We never settle and aspire to attract, retain, and empower the very best people.
• Startup Mentality: With roots in startup culture, we move faster, are more resourceful, and empower our team at all levels. We are in the early chapters of our journey.
• World-Class Remote Collaboration: As a 100% remote company with no offices, our distributed teams require individuals who excel in this remote structure, providing freedom and autonomy.

About the Role

We are seeking a full-time, remote Mid Level DevOps Engineer to collaborate with a team of developers in creating and implementing software applications and components. This role offers the flexibility to choose your hours and the opportunity to work and learn with world-class engineers and designers, emphasizing team collaboration, communication, and product quality.

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

Responsibilities

• Manage the infrastructure required for software development, deployment, and testing.
• Configure and maintain servers, databases, networking, and storage systems.
• Monitor system health, performance, and availability.
• Establish proper logging practices to facilitate debugging and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with development teams to understand their needs and help them deploy code faster and more efficiently.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the development team, enabling continuous integration, testing, and delivery of software changes.
• Automate repetitive tasks and write scripts to enable efficient and consistent operations, including deployment, testing, and monitoring.
• Manage the version control system and ensure the codebase is stable, secure, and up to date.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of hands-on work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services (S3, CloudFront, ECS, ECR, Lambda).
• Extensive knowledge of AWS, especially AWS CDK.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (CDK and/or Terraform).
• Fundamental knowledge or experience in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), like CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using AWS technologies such as CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, or GitHub Actions (or similar tools like Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, etc.).
• Proven ability to set up CI/CD pipelines with GitHub.
• Solid understanding of AWS CDK and SDK.
• Proficient in container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Cloudflare.
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification.
• Background in web development, preferably in JavaScript, primarily for debugging purposes.
• Experience working with Agile Teams.
• Great documentation and communication skills.
• Excellent English communication skills.
• Full-time availability (40 hours/week).
• A personal computer with stable internet.

Nice-to-Haves

• AWS Solutions Architect Certification.
• AWS CDK and Terraform.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud.
• AWS Services: Route53, SNS, EKS, DynamoDB, CodeStar.

What’s in it for you?

As a full-time member of our team, you’ll enjoy:

• Unlimited PTO
• Non-working holidays per country of residence
• Pro-rated 13th-month bonus in select regions
• Salary increases and performance-based bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Fun and casual work environment
• Employee engagement activities and virtual gatherings